Random music news for Monday, April 25, 2022
A poop pill miracle for crushing it at the gym? Maybe. Now here’s the situation with music news for April 25, 2022. Mick Jagger has a few things to say about the “Brown
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WKRP
With the death of Howard Hesseman, here’s the biography/obituary of Dr. Johnny Fever
When I was still a little nubbin figuring out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I became a fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, the CBS sitcom about a bunch of
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Gift idea: How did I miss this radio-related present?
I was already in radio when this appeared in the Sears catalogue in 1982. Still, I would have grabbed one had I known it existed!
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Random music news for Friday, June 18, 2021
Damn. I was really hoping for a supernova in our lifetime, but it’s not going to happen. Assuage yourself with music news for June 18, 2021. RIP Frank Bonner, the man who played
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Random music news for Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Jeezus. These people are nuts. Ignore them and focus on music news for December 29, 2020, instead. That recorded voice that came out of the exploding RV in Nashville has been identified… …and
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Because it’s US Thanksgiving, it’s almost the law I post this.
As God as my witness, this is a TV classic.
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Random music news for Wednesday, February 20, 2019
This is the date–February 20, 2003–of the Station Nightclub Fire in Rhode Island when 100 people died and 200 were injured when the pyro went wrong during a Great White gig. As for
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All the songs played on the original editions of WKRP in Cincinnati tracked for the first time
When WKRP in Cincinnati debuted on CBS in the fall of 1978, it introduced a radical use of music. Up until then, it was extraordinarily rare to hear real music from real artists
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Hugh Wilson, the guy who created WKRP in Cincinnati has died
Back in the day, WKRP in Cincinnati was required viewing for all of us wannabe radio people. If you work in the business, we’ve all met and worked with our share Herb Tarleks,
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Because It’s US Thanksgiving, We Must Revisit the Famous WKRP Clip
This remains one of the funniest bits in all of TV. The official title of this 1978 episode of WKRP is “Turkeys Away.” Now let’s go to our live report from the Pinedale
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No, Real Radio Isn’t Like What We Saw on WKRP
Now that WKRP in Cincinnati is out on DVD with most of the original music intact (getting that straight was a licensing nightmare), a new generation of people is discovering the show. And
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